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Philadelphia - Pennsylvania

Principal Staff

Brooks Jackson

Principal Staff

Lori Robertson

Description

In a world of 140-character tweets and political attack ads posted on YouTube information has become easier to access and easier to release. It’s also become more difficult to discern between what information is true and what is false. FactCheck.org rose to the challenge of making those calls in political discourse leading up to the 2004 election and has continued to play a key role in reducing political deception and the spread of misinformation ever since.